A silent scream from World War One

Through all the years he fought during World War One, Lieutenant Kenneth Wootton made detailed ink drawings of the battles and devastation. They have been rediscovered after ninety years.

He was awarded the MC for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty and then? He must have had children because his great-granddaughter recently discovered his journal in a mass of papers she inherited.

As we stand at one of the village memorials to the men lost in World War One, Wooten's drawings and diary entries arrive like a silent scream that has been travelling toward us all these years.

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The people of Britain and the Anglosphere defied a world of cruelty and superstition to create life-changing gifts. This is your inheritance. Glorious. Hardcover, 140 pages, 125 colour illustrations.

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DAVID ABBOTT MD, MRCP

I have practiced medicine in England, America and Canada for the last four decades. I believe in the principles of Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights. I am a father, grandfather, bell ringer, environmental campaigner and marathoner.

Brits at their Best produced thousands of indispensable inventions, developed wildly popular sports, designed romantic houses and gardens, created astonishing literary masterpieces, lived with style and humour, tackled dangerous missions with daring and ingenuity, and fought with indomitable courage to establish and protect the free world.

We describe their superb achievements and extraordinary lives.

CATHERINE (CAT) GLASS

I saw tyranny firsthand in Eastern Europe. (My background is English, Irish, and Czech.) I received my degree in Classical Greek from Columbia University, New York, worked in publishing in the United States for twenty years, and helped the homeless for seven years.